Jianmin Fang PhD

Dr. Jianmin Fang received his Ph.D. degree in biology from Dalhousie University, Canada. He completed his postdoctoral training in tumour biology in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School/Children’s Hospital in Boston. Then he moved to California and worked at Cell Genesys at South San Francisco as a Scientist, Senior Scientist, and Program Head and then in Panorama Research Institute at Sunnyvale as the Director for Antibody Engineering. Since 2009，Dr. Fang has been a Professor of Molecular Medicine in Tongji University at the School of Life Science and Technology in Shanghai. He has also served as the Director of Tongji University Suzhou Institute in Suzhou. Since 2012, Dr. Fang has been the member of Scientific Committee for the national “Major Drug Innovation Projects” of China. Dr. Fang is the founder and CEO of RemeGen, Ltd. a biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of innovative antibody drugs, including antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) drugs. He is also the founder of MabPlex International, Ltd. which provides CDMO service for biologics development and manufacturing.

Dr. Fang’s research has been focused on the development of antibody drugs and other therapeutics for cancer and other diseases. He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has over 30 granted patents. He is the inventor for a number of biological drugs in clinical development. He is the main inventor for Conbercept, a novel biologics approved for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (ADC) by Chinese FDA. Dr. Fang is the main inventor for RC48, the first ADC drug approved for clinical trials in China, and has been playing a leadership role in the preclinical and clinical development of RC40 project.